The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-08-17
Labor Par.ies.

LAWFUL = 80 NAGe@a
The labor parties of New York are
having more than their share of
political harmony. The bird of
peace is not lowering very dose
over their political gatherings In
fact he appears as a very dim speelz
+ in the distance. There are asser-
tons and deniafs, qualifications in
plenty. DIR. McGlynn has thun-
ylered- forth his anatRema against
the Socialist and they are read out
OF. the pale of virtuons and pat
riotic 'santi-povertyites. The Len
non faction of the Union Labor par
tv refuse to lie down in the same
fold with the gallant doctor and his
followers The United Labor par
ty is on the war path after the scalps
of the Socialists and Union Labor
men, and large element favor
coalition with the Democracy. No
platform that can be devised will be
broad enough to unite all these con-
fiicting elements; no leaders, strong
enough to, control them. Their po-
litieal opinions vary through all the
shades from liberal Democracy to
the rankest Socialism. Their meth
ODDS range from constitutional ag-
itasion to the bomb and pistol of
the Anarchist.
What hope can the laboring man
have from these radically divided
elements? What confidence can
they inspire that the evils under
which he IS groaning will be light
ened by the weight of feather?
Experience has shown that agita-
ton within an old established par
ty is the most successful and only
practicable method of obtaining
political ends. The formation of
new parties is the most difficult of
all political acts. Only one new
and successful party has been found
ed in this country during the last
century, and it was new only in
name, while the number of
mushroom organizations that have
sprung up to perish in day runs
into the scores. History repeats
itself; the light of the past should
warn the laboring classes, however
disaffected and however righteous
their cause may be, against these
"patent medicine" organizations
with high-sounding names, that
propose to cure off-hand all social
and moral evils. |
The Democratic party. is the par
ty of the workingmen; no alliance
with monopoly and no faint of cor
ruption stains its record. The men
who crush out the life of the labor
ing classes, the men who speculate
in human flesh and blood, the HAIR
PIERS, the WARDS and their kind,
can be reckoned almost to a man
outside of the Democratic ranks.
The Republican press can scarce
ly hide their joy at the prospects of
Labor split. The true policy of
the men, then, who earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow, is to join
more closely to that political body
which has always turned a ready
ear to their demands, the body that
enrolls the great majority of the
wOrkingmen in the land. By ac-
tive work within the limits of the
Democratic party they will attain
their ends, the elevation and adj
vancement of their class, more sure
ly and more effectually than either
by an alliance with a party that has
sold itself body and soul to the uses
of monopoly, or by following in the
wake of every demagogue who pro-
claims aloud his political nostrums.
When the grievances of our labor
ing classes are settled, it will be
done not by the efforts of blatant
extremists like the GEORGES and
McGLYNNs, but by work within the
bounds of an established political
body. Such an opportunity the De-
mocracy offers; the men who would
lead them into other channels are
Labor's worst enemies. Register.
The Outrage.
Tho eoIIoyino, from tho ParI,ers-